Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation in South America," he said, "is getting much more important, as you all know, in connection with the trip...
...matter of fact Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau edited Britannia with the assistance of Mr. Price; but apparently his swanky little soul rejoiced in the title of GOVERNING DIRECTOR...
...Chicago executives heard and cringed, then recovered their ease upon reflecting that the lecturer was Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, sound scientist, at present director of scientific research for the Redpath (lyceum, lecture) Bureau and therefore a professional rouser of emotions...
...years as managing director of the National Retail Dry Goods Association gave Lew Hahn intimate knowledge of department stores, plus "reputation," of which he had almost none when he began wrapping up shoes in Andrew Alexander's shop...
...Harvey, 62, President of Fred Harvey, Inc. (operators of the Santa Fe dining cars, many a hotel and lunchroom in the Southwest); of pneumonia following an attack of influenza; in Kansas City, Mo. He, a son of founder Fred Harvey, is survived by a son Fred, polo player and director in Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (TIME...